O God of all our griefs, you whose name we cry out to the darkness, in whom we strain to believe: send a flicker of your Spirit to show us the face of your Son in all of the broken people around us, that when we learn to see his face in our own we might at last become one people as you are One God. Amen.
For music, “Jesus Alone” by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds:
There is an irony in this being the prayer of the day under the article about Draper’s reaction to homeless shelters
Unintended, but yes indeed.